Huyton No. 2 / Hitune

Ellis (1902) notes: "The font now in use in Huyton church, and which stands at the west end of the nave, is in such excellent preservation that, had it not been for a reference to it in a paper by Mr. F. T. Turton, in the Transactions of this Society for 1881-2, p. 88, in which he states that it dates from about 1460, I should have considered it a tolerable recent copy of a fifteenth century font. It is of local sandstone, is lead-lined, and has a drain. The bowl is octagonal, the sides narrowing downwards in a curve, and each face consists of a deeply-sunk panel, containing a quatrefoil with pointed leaves enclosing a plain shield. At the junction of the bowl with short plain octagonal stem is a strong moulding, while the base expands to about the diameter of the bowl by a series of mouldings of simple and graceful character." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as one of two fonts in this church, a Perpendicular font. The Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 3, 1907) notes: "The font now in use is octagonal with a panelled bowl and moulded base and dates from the latter part of the fifteenth century; the bowl appears to have been cut down. [...] Before 1871 the font now in use stood in the chancel near the priest's door". Noted in Pevsner (1969): "The Perp[endicular] one has the usual pointed quatrefoils with shields." Ditto in Pollard & Pevsner (2006)